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putter around

/ˈpʌt̬.ɚ əˈraʊnd/

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verb

/ˈpʌt̬.ɚ əˈraʊnd/C1formalamerican
  • ruФразовый глагол, означающий проводить время за мелкими, неважными делами в расслабленной или бесцельной манере.

A phrasal verb meaning to spend time doing small, unimportant tasks in a relaxed or aimless way.

uncountable · intransitive · phrasal, no object

  1. Engage in minor tasksinformalamerican

    To spend time doing small, unimportant tasks in a relaxed way.

    ruЗаниматься мелкими делами

    • He spent the afternoon puttering around the garden.
    • She likes to putter around the house on weekends.
    • I was just puttering around, tidying up the garage.

    Synonymsdabblemess aroundpottertinker

    Antonymsdashhurryhustleracerushscurryspeed

Forms
  • puttered around past participle
  • puttered around past simple
  • puttering around present participle
  • putters around third person singular

Base verbputter

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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